#OPTCUT. Chặt cây

Chặt cây

English Vietnamese

You have to cut a piece of wood into n smaller pieces, each piece is of length ai. The pieces must be cut in order exactly a1, a2, ..., an from left to right.

At each step, you may cut a piece into two smaller pieces. The cost for that cut is the length of the piece before cut.

Different cut order will result in different costs.

Find the minimum cost to cut the initial piece into n given smaller pieces.